Motor Vehicle Collison - Augustine Herman Highway, Chestertown

9/20/2025

At 11:41 pm on Saturday, September 20, 2025, the Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company, along with multiple automatic mutual aid companies, was dispatched to the Motor Vehicle Crash with High Mechanism, in the 9800 block of Augustine Herman Highway (Maryland 213). This places the crash scene between Worton Road (Maryland 297) and the Kent County Gun Club, more specifically… about ½ mile north of Suds & Soda. The caller was reporting a single vehicle crash with multiple patients.

Public Announcement - Parking Lot Project

9/2/2025

Public Announcement – Starting on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, and continuing at least through Friday, September 5, 2025, the entire parking lot of the Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company will be completely closed. Contractors from Bramble’s will be on-site completing a much needed complete rebuild and upgrade of our parking lot. The parking lot and associated features are more then 45 years old, dating from when we moved into this facility in 1979.

August Top Responders

9/1/2025

Doug Wilson, Shawn Rideout, Brad Russum, Bruce Neal, Kendall McGinnis

Gas Leak - Washington Avenue, Chestertown

9/1/2025

At 1:04 am on Monday, September 1, 2025 (Labor Day), the Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company was dispatched to the John S. Toll Science Center, Washington College for an outside gas odor. Washington College Public Safety was reporting the odor of propane on the east side of the building, adjacent to the “Lower Campus”.

Congratulations Firefighter Cade Terrill

8/26/2025

We’d like to take this opportunity to recognize one of our newest members… Cade Terrill, on his recent completion of the University of Maryland, Maryland Fire & Rescue Institute program “Firefighter I”. In Maryland, this program is the foundation of educational requirements for all volunteer firefighters in the State of Maryland.